text
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From Latin textus, perfect passive participle of texō (“weave”).
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text (countable and uncountable; plural texts)
- A writing consisting of multiple glyphs, characters, symbols or sentences.
- A book, tome or other set of writings.
- (colloquial) A brief written message transmitted between mobile phones; an SMS text message.
- (computing) Data which can be interpreted as human-readable text (often contrasted with binary data).
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a written passage
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a book, tome or other set of writings
a brief written message transmitted between mobile phones
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text (third-person singular simple present texts, present participle texting, simple past and past participle texted)
- To send a text message to; i.e. to transmit text using the Short Message Service (SMS), or a similar service, between communications devices, particularly mobile phones.
- Just text me when you get here.
- (intransitive) To send and receive text messages.
- Have you been texting all afternoon?
- (obsolete) To write in large characters, as in text hand.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Beaumont and Flanders to this entry?)
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send a text message to
[edit] Catalan
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From Latin textus, perfect passive participle of texō (“weave”).
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text m. (plural texts or textos)
- a text
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From Persian
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text m.
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Audio (file)
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text c.
